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Love Your Magic Conference
Read about how one teacher used a Learning for Justice grant to help fund a daylong conference empowering girls of color in Boston.
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Informational
U.S. Constitution: Articles I, II, IV, V
These sections illustrate the ways in which the U.S. Constitution provided indirect protection of slavery.
January 5, 2018
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Informational
Letter to Reverend Samson Occum (1774)
Wheatley’s letter explains her reasoning for emancipation using the rhetoric of the American Revolution and Biblical references.
January 5, 2018
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Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline
School policies that include harsh punishments, automatic out-of-class time and police involvement for discipline contribute to pushing young people out of classrooms and into the criminal legal system. These punitive practices disproportionately affect Black and other children of color, students with disabilities, young people experiencing poverty and children from communities that have been historically marginalized. Urgent change is needed to end school pushout and dismantle this school-to-prison pipeline.
- What Is the School-to-Prison Pipeline, and How Do We Dismantle It?
- Only Young Once: Dismantling Georgia’s Punitive Youth Incarceration System
- The Heart of Facilitation in Restorative Justice
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The Shoebox Lunch
Inside a precious metal box are remnants of history that reveal a family’s story of resistance, resilience and love.
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Walkout in Crystal City
A former teacher from Crystal City, Texas, remembers the student walkout that helped launch the Latino civil rights movement 40 years ago.
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What Is the School-to-Prison Pipeline, and How Do We Dismantle It?
Urgent change is needed to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline. Together, families, educators and community members can advocate for and implement practices that prioritize mental health and well-being and do not push children out of schools.
November 27, 2023
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Religious Holidays
If you want to include religious holidays as part of classroom inquiry, it is important to plan for them. Keep the following guidelines in mind.
July 16, 2009
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Treasure Chest for Change
It is a challenge to help students to learn not only about history but also from it.
January 4, 2011
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Ban? No, Teach the Topics.
Gender, sexuality and religion are common themes in challenged books of 2015. Rather than effectively ban these topics from the classroom, TT recommends teaching about them and offers student texts to do so.